Faded

I'm on a poetry roll now ... :D

This is a song about one of my characters .. I won't tell you which one. That's up to you to guess ... >:) (though it's kind of a sad one) ... (and a spoiler, if you guess right ..)

History says I faded like a flower,

But there's so much that history doesn't know.

I faded like the lighting splitting cloud banks,

Like a thousand falling icicles on snow.

Some say that I faded like a moonbeam,

But I say it was like a dying star.

Some say my demise was slow and gentle,

But I was as the fire sparks flung far.

But either way I faded,

Yes I faded.

History never dared to get that wrong.

And what does it matter how I faded?

No matter how they say it, I'm still gone.

Though even as a broken, dying echo,

Love came and shattered through my night.

Now I've found eternity life echoes,

Now I've found the brightest light.

No I wasn't like the fading rainbow,

Instead a falling star ran out of sky.

But either way it's true to say I faded.

And so for once, history didn't lie.

Oh either way I faded,

Yes I faded.

History never dared to get that wrong.

And what does it matter how I faded?

No matter how they say it, I'm still gone.